We advise and represent regionally, nationally and internationally active companies in all important areas of industrial property rights. Our fields of activity range from the application to the enforcement of intellectual property rights such as patents, utility models, plant variety rights, trademarks and designs on a German, European and international level.
EXAMINATION FOR PROTECTABILITY
Rapid testing of the protectability of your new developments. Conducting searches (also in the context of WIPANO).
PATENT APPLICATION AND PROSECUTION
Applications in Germany and abroad, advice on property right strategies and prosecution.
ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Examination and support in infringement cases, preliminary injunctions, warnings, claims for damages.
ATTACK ON OR DEFENCE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Opposition and nullity proceedings (patents), opposition and cancellation proceedings (trade marks), monitoring of property right activities of third parties.
LEGAL ADVICE
Checking the Freedom-To-Operate (FTO), patent evaluations, contracts on intellectual property rights, employee inventions, license negotiations, cooperation agreements and know-how protection.
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
Employee or in-house training courses on current topics from patent, trademark, design or employee invention law, especially for companies as well as national and international startups.